I firmly believe it's all a matter of your own personal choice. If you buy into the hype that there Chinese and junk then spend 3-4x as much and get Galfer or EBC and be done with it. But honestly when is that last time you have ever heard of someone having a chinese rotor that threw a button or came apart causing someone to crash or worse? I have read lots of debates and questions about them and don't believe I ever have, yeah you hear of some getting them in warped or them warping from extreme use but I have had oem rotors to warp also. Does that mean the batch whoever made that day at/for suzuki was junk? I have ran galfer,ebc & the chinese knock-offs on different bikes and would hard pressed to tell the difference if I didn't know. Now grant it yes, put different pads on the same rotor no matter which and it can be a night & day difference. But who knows, maybe it's just me.
I actually have a set of the knock off waves on my gen 1 right now paired with EBC HH pads and gen 2 radial calipers and if I had the ballz could probably endo it 100mph, but I'll pass. But I will admit when I first put it all back together after the front end swap I was out on a ride with some guys playing pretty good on some back roads and guy in front of me knew the road good so I felt confident rolling with him, and after a good little straight we were coming up a slight incline and I guess I must have just zoned for a half a second as he touched his brake and caught me off guard I guess causing me to instinctively to grab brake. I did and at that moment I grabbed a sufficient amount for the gen 1 set-up that was just on there, but too much for the new set-up and that front locked up solid and we were in the 90mph range at that time.
It was my fault/mistake/screw-up 100% not blaming anything or anyone else, so I guess my point is I don't see a problem with the chinese rotors. Maybe that's not a good/accurate or whatever you want to call it assessment of them but since I've never had a problem with them or ever heard of anyone getting killed/injured from them failing and they can lock the front wheel up in a split second with that weight on them and at those speeds their ok by me.
And as far as that goes show me a company out there that has never had a problem/defect with a product they produce/manufacture at one time or another. US or abroad.???
I'm sure Maxine wasn't running a knock-off wheel, and look at how close those teams inspect/change parts and such on those race bikes and stuff still happens.
Just because it cost's $5k doesn't necessarily mean it's $4500 better than the one that cost's $500
And no I'm not arguing all knock-offs are equal or good at all cause I would never own another set of knock off levers. And yes, I've tried them and had problems with them and not just anodizing wearing off.(honestly mine didn't last that long) I'd rather spend the $150-200 a set for Pazzo/ASV/CRG.